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For all its quirks and shortcomings, the Microsoft Band is an excellent hybrid device in many respects. It's useful for tracking your workouts, serves as a solid step/sleep counter and the Guided Workout feature is really good. What really adds...

We had high hopes for the Microsoft Band: with every sensor under the sun packed in for a reasonable US$199, it looked like it might consign all our other exercise devices to the scrap heap. And it certainly has plenty to offer: we loved the guided...

The retail price of $200 is higher than I'd likely spend on something like this, but Amazon sells the Microsoft Band for $150 through Amazon Prime. Microsoft has packed a mind-numbing array of functionality into the Microsoft Band and there's still room...

Microsoft took its time to bring the Microsoft Band to the UK, but if, like me, you were eagerly anticipating its arrival on our shores, then your wait may have been worthwhile. The Band is one of the most fully featured activity trackers yet. Truth...

The problem with wearable devices of all kinds is that while they come in all shapes, colours and forms, and lie across a broad quality spectrum, they are all -- ultimately -- judged on a pass-fail basis: do you actually want to wear it every day? And...

Microsoft's own reviewer's guide for this, the Band, talks about it being 'the first device powered by Microsoft Health', and this is the key to understanding the accessory itself. Introduced initially in the USA at the end of last year, there was a...

The Microsoft Band is a good product in part, if strangely branded. Microsoft calls it a fitness tracker but its best use is far beyond that. The company also claims that it is a 24/7 device, but its battery life and clunky size belie that...

In terms of design the Microsoft Band is a chunky beast at best and an absolute insult to the wearable tech movement at worst. We get the feeling that Microsoft cares more about getting its software onto as many systems as possible than it does about...

The Microsoft Band is an ambitious device, no question. The computing giant has packed the accessory with as many sensors as it could hold, and clearly wants users to wear it every day as a lifestyle aid. While the amount of data it draws is impressive...

Microsoft first launched its band fitness tracker late last year in the US, and will now go on sale in the UK from April 15. It's an increasingly crowded market, with smartphones and watches encroaching on health and fitness-monitoring territory, and the...